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Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Oct 20, 2015 16:52 UTC (Tue) by jra (subscriber, #55261)
In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by rfontana
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Did you miss or ignore the part of the article above that states :

"License proliferation was so rampant ten years ago that Fink made a public plea at Linux World 2005 for the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to stop adding new licenses to its approved list. The problem, of course, is that each additional license increases the complexity of the ecosystem and, thus, creates a legal maze that makes it hard to participate. "If I had been Steve Ballmer, trying to kill Linux, I would have just encouraged people to make more licenses."

or are you just trying to resurrect the license proliferation problem 'cos you're a fan of zombie shows ?

Writing a new license is *not* helpful at this point in time.


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Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

Posted Mar 15, 2016 3:02 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

copyleft-next is an experiment and exploration of the possibilities of copyleft licensing, I wouldn't call it license proliferation at this point.


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